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Warrior Crixus
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hi all, i've just found this place after two days of searching for help on this, i have not found any info on my particular situation anywhere so i fugured i should ask those whom are more knowledgeable than me about this. bear with me, i'm going on little sleep here.

Ok, I have a Quad Proliant 5000 server with a custom Intel 82450GX/KX chipset (intel doesn't even have info on this chipset on thier site). I have the latest BIOS installed on this system, but there's one problem. It supports 200mhz Pentium Pro processors, but not 333mhz Pentium II Overdrive processors. the reason? no microcode present in the bios.

Not a problem, i got the microcode update right here, along with a copy of the bios rom image. now if only i could make the rom file open up and allow me to put the updated microcode in. i've tried the latest biosview and ctmc and cbrom and i get nothing out of them. modbin complains about a checksum error.

if i knew for sure that the rom file was an uncompressed image i would just take a hex editor and find the portion of code that has the microcode for the existing processors (by comparing to the code in the update) and just swap it with the code for the overdrive processors, but i want to be sure if there is a less risky way of doing this. any help would be greatly appreciated.
Warrior Crixus
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Ok, after much searching, i found out that my board is an AP450GX Intel motherboard, and when it comes to compatibility with the PentiumII Overdrive processor, intel had to say this:

Chipset BIOS VERSION Compatibility

Intel AP450GX 1.00.xx.CT0 or 1.00.xx.CT0x incompatible

note that the bios versions are the INTEL BIOS, but regardless, my Compaq BIOS won't work either.

Could a Moderator please close this thread so at least anyone else with my problem can see that unfortunately Proliant 5000 servers are NOT compatible with PentiumII overdrive processors.

now, off to E-bay to buy a new server board!
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